Netflix Keeps You Safe
US Lightning Strike Fatalities vs Netflix Global Subscribers
As Netflix subscribers climbed, lightning strike deaths fell. Binging saves lives. Stranger Things literally shielded the nation.
“Remaining indoors for another episode is the most effective lightning-avoidance strategy in the medical literature. Autoplay is a defibrillator.”
— Dr. Sofa Current, Streaming Epidemiologist
How we paired this data
Stupid Correlations scans hundreds of public time-series datasets and surfaces pairings whose Pearson correlation crosses a comically high threshold. US Lightning Strike Fatalities and Netflix Global Subscribers hit r ≈ 65% (negative) over the years they overlap — the algorithm flagged it, and we kept it because the headline practically wrote itself.
Crucially, no causal model was tested, no covariates were controlled for, and no peer reviewer was consulted. This is the statistical equivalent of finding two people with the same birthday at a wedding and writing a paper about destiny. Real research adjusts for confounders; we adjust the caption for laughs.
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